Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-01

viii 20 the bridge and down Will 20
their soul to perdition. OWorld OF the
greedy eve and the hard heart, come on
the stand now and testify in behalf Of
the prosecution against this Christian
soul on trial. What do you know
about this Christian man? "Oh." saws
the World, Il know a great deal about
him. He talks about putting his treas
ures in heaven, but he is the sharpest
man in a trade | ever knew. He seems
TO want us to believe that he is n child
of God, but he is just full of imperfec-
tons. | do not know but | am a great
deal better han he is now. Ottentimes
he is very earthly. and he talks SO little
about Christ and SO much about him
self. | am very glad to testify this is a
bad man"
Stop, O World with the greedy eye
and the hard heart. | fear YOU arc too
much interested in this trial to give I'M
partial evidence. Let all those who
hear the testimony of this witness know
that there is
AN FAMILY QUARREL
between these two parties. There A.
WAYS has been a variance between the
World and the Church, and while the
World on the witness stand to-day has
told a great deal OF truth about this
Christian man, you must TAX 1t All
with some allowance, remembering
that they still keep the Old grud&e
good. O Worl2 Of the greedy eye and
the hard heart, that will DO. You may
sit down.
The second witness ! call in this case
is Conscience. Who art thou, . Con-
science? What is your business?
Where we're YOU born? What are you
doing here? 90" says Conscience, -
was born in heaven. | came down to
hefrieud this man. Ihaye lived With him.
have instructed him. ] have warned
him. / showed him the right and the
wrong, advising him to take tha one
and eschaw the other. | have klndled
II great light in his soul. With a whip
of scorpions | have scourged his
wickedness. and | have tried
to cheer him when doing right;
ana yet | am compelled TO testify on
the stand to-day that he has sometimes
rejected my mission. Oh, how many
cups of life have | pressed to his lips
that he dashed down, and how often
has he stood with his hard heel on the
] bleeding heart OF the Son Of God! 1t
! pains me very much that | have to tes-
J tifv against this Christian man, and yet
must. in behalf Of Him who will in no
wise clear the guilty, say that this
! Christian man has done wrong. He
has been worldly. He has been neg
} lectful. lie has done 4 thousand things
he ought not TO have done and left I'M
done a thousand things he ought to
= have done" That will 90, Conscience.
, You can sit down.
! Tie third witness | call in the case,
l is
AN ANGEL or GOD.
Bright and shining one, what doe.t
: thou here? What hRst thou TO say
against this man on trial? OH says
the angel, II have been a messenger to
: him. / have guarded him. ! have
! watched him. With this wing ! have
defended him, and oftentimes when he
knew it not | led him into the green
pastures and beside the still waters. |
: matched from him the poisoned chali-
a ces. When bad spirits came upon him
T TO destroy him | fought them back with
infinite fierceness; and vet | have TO
! testify to-day that he has rejected my
mission, He has not done a. he ought
G 10 have done. Though | came from
+, the SKY he drove me back. Though
! with this wing | defended him, and
Q though with this voice ! wooed him,
have to announce his multiplied imper-
n fections. dare not keep back the tes-
e timouy, for then | should not dare to
. appear amongst the sinless ones before
q the great white throne"
There is only one more witness TO bc
called on behalf of the prosecution,
and that is the great, the holy, the au-
! gust. the omnipolcnt Spirit of God.
WE bow down before Him. Holy
Spirit. knowest Thou this man? ooh.
yes" says the Holy One, Il kno"
!. him. / have striyon with him ter
thousand times, and though sometime,
he did seem to repent, he fell back
! again as often from his FIRST estate
Ten thousand times ten thousand ha.
j he gricyei Me. although the Bib,
warned him saving: 'Grieyc not tht
= Holy Ghost. Qucnch not the Spirit
e Yes. he has driven Me back. Though
! am the Third Person of the Trinlt,
+, he has tramplcd on my mission, anC
the blood of the atoncment that
brought with which to cleanse hi,
soul, he sometimes despised. l came
from the throne of God
IT TO CONVERT n COMFORT,
n and sanctify, and yet look at that man
and see what he is compared with what
unresisted, | would have made him
The evidence on the part of the prose
n cution has closed. Now let the de
Tense bring on the rebuttal testimony
What have you, O, Christian soul, It
bring in reply to this evidence of tn
world. of the conscience, Of the angel
of the Holy GhostP No evidence? Ar
all these things true? Eyes, unclean
unclean," says every Christian soul
What? Do YOU not begin 10 trcmbl
re at the thought of condemnation?
le We have come now to the most in
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